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Sid Meier's Colonization
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Discover the New World and fulfill your Manifest Destiny!
The New World lies before you with all its peril, promise, and infinite possibility: your colonists anxiously follow you to shore and the treasures of an entire continent await you. But beware of your enemies! Angry natives and rival powers can encroach upon your territory. You'll have to overcome your foes with superior military strategy and wily diplomacy. Only then can you launch your revolution and declare your independence.
Players control either English, French, Dutch, or Spanish colonists in the New World. This New World can be the historically accurate Americas (North and South) or a randomly generated world with varying resources and challenges. Overseeing economic, military, and political growth, you strive to establish independence from the mother country while competing with other colonies for control of the New World.
Plant a foothold in the New World and establish your independence in Sid Meier’s Colonization!
The New World lies before you with all its peril, promise, and infinite possibility: your colonists anxiously follow you to shore and the treasures of an entire continent await you. But beware of your enemies! Angry natives and rival powers can encroach upon your territory. You'll have to overcome your foes with superior military strategy and wily diplomacy. Only then can you launch your revolution and declare your independence.
Players control either English, French, Dutch, or Spanish colonists in the New World. This New World can be the historically accurate Americas (North and South) or a randomly generated world with varying resources and challenges. Overseeing economic, military, and political growth, you strive to establish independence from the mother country while competing with other colonies for control of the New World.
Plant a foothold in the New World and establish your independence in Sid Meier’s Colonization!
- Play either the French, English, Dutch, or Spanish colonial powers, each with distinct characteristics and political situations.
- Customize your games and choose your own level of difficulty so you never play the same game twice.
- Designed by Sid Meier, who brought you Alpha Centauri and Civilization!
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Please be advised that Windows 10 operating system will receive frequent hardware driver and software updates following its release; this may affect game compatibility
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Please be advised that Windows 10 operating system will receive frequent hardware driver and software updates following its release; this may affect game compatibility
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18.5 hMain
34.5 h Main + Sides
59.5 h Completionist
23 h All Styles
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Posted on: November 5, 2025
pazkal
Verified ownerGames: 78 Reviews: 1
best game ever
playing it since the 90s. my glasses are tinted pink to the max, but this game is the best!
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Posted on: June 5, 2012
Licurg
Verified ownerGames: 903 Reviews: 9
A Great Classic
One of my favorite childhood games, and still a great game even today, a must-have in any TBS fan's collection. Although the title is a little incorrect, in the sense that it was actually Bryan Reynolds who did most of the work, with Sid Meyer being more second in command, i'm happy to see it here. Buy it now!
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Posted on: September 22, 2013
sepdick
Verified ownerGames: 62 Reviews: 1
My favourite
Almost perfect, just the random combat is a bit ass
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Posted on: July 10, 2015
GamingVeteran
Games: 101 Reviews: 9
Super game with one key flaw
This is definitely worth your time, however be prepared to work around the problem with combat, which is severe enough that it can ruin in minutes a well-played game that you spent many hours putting together. The combat problem is that the actual odds in combat bear no resemblance to the odds given by the game. You'll commonly encounter astronomically-improbable battle outcomes, and mostly these will be quite bad for you. At times, the game seems to decide that certain units will not be defeated, and anything you send against them will fail, no matter how many units you have at your command. My experience is that this can be worked around to some degree by choosing different attack squares or changing to a different attack then changing back (things that may give you a new roll of the random number generator), but probably you'll need to resort to save-scumming when this happens. Five stars as a simulation, minus one for a crippling problem with a key game element.
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